It's a toss up for me if this belongs here or in the Linux topic so I picked one....
Text editors, you know emacs vi and their kin. I know they used to be part of the standard toolkit for all programmers. I have been reading The Pragmatic Programmer and one of their point was "Learn to use one text editor well". I'm not really a programmer but I have aspirations to do some programming, mostly web based. I have played with Emacs and am slowly working my way through the complete built in tutorial. I used vi about 5 years ago when I was actually enrolled in a CS program that I didn't finish.
From my limited, very limited, experience, I don't see the real value of text editors if you are working in a GUI OS. It seems that any old .txt file is as good as the next in Windows. I'm all for mouseless computing but I haven't yet seen that it's terribly convenient to go mouseless in these editors.
Am I just misguided, missing the point, misusing the the app or ar text editors of these types not as useful as they may have once been?
Text editors, you know emacs vi and their kin. I know they used to be part of the standard toolkit for all programmers. I have been reading The Pragmatic Programmer and one of their point was "Learn to use one text editor well". I'm not really a programmer but I have aspirations to do some programming, mostly web based. I have played with Emacs and am slowly working my way through the complete built in tutorial. I used vi about 5 years ago when I was actually enrolled in a CS program that I didn't finish.
From my limited, very limited, experience, I don't see the real value of text editors if you are working in a GUI OS. It seems that any old .txt file is as good as the next in Windows. I'm all for mouseless computing but I haven't yet seen that it's terribly convenient to go mouseless in these editors.
Am I just misguided, missing the point, misusing the the app or ar text editors of these types not as useful as they may have once been?